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Many important sources of production innovation came from customers and suppliers. Marketing planning in SMEs is constrained by limited time and money, limited expertise, this paper introduced the context of innovation and product innovation, discussed the advantage of small and middle enterprise(SME) to develop their product innovation, researched the relation between market orientation and product...
To improve the performance of Heilongjiang province cultural industry and cultural trade, and to provide the profound the theoretical and practical supporting for Heilongjiang's construction, the comparative analysis method and quantitative analysis method are introduced to analyze this case, so, the corresponding strategies, from three aspects about government, company, and product, respectively,...
Latecomer firms how to build the different interfirm network to match the different niche strategies to achieve better innovational performance is one of increasing concern topics both in practice and academics. The paper divides the niche into product niche and process niche, divides the technological innovation into product innovation and process innovation according to different competition positioning,...
A successful innovative strategy can keep the predominance of company in the market of fierce competition, and high-level human capital can realize the enhancement of corporate performance, thus the clarifying of the interactive mechanism of innovation strategy and human capital on firm performance becomes particularly important. Data for this study were collected from 197 listed companies out of...
The present study aims at a deeper understanding of the relationship between the service innovation performance and their business strategy in terms of Miles and Snow's strategic typology including prospectors, analyzers, defenders and reactors. A survey of 192 Chinese knowledge intensive business services was used to collect data that were analyzed through variance analysis and multiple comparison...
The economic transformation of resource cities is one common worldwide problem. The resource cities in China are confronted with double difficulties at the same time-resource exhaustion and economic system transformation. The economic transformation and social stableness of such cities are the important issues in the development and harmony of China. Industrial clusters are the network organizations...
Since 1980s, the globalization and informationization sweep the globe, affecting all aspects of world development. In this macro background, exchange of the city elements between each other are strengthening and expanding in size, frequency and speed. For this reason, these exchanges form a multi-level system in the world scope. Consequently, the global city arises at a historic moment. In 2008, city...
Strategic innovation is the combination of innovation and corporate-level strategy and the important source of sustainable advantage under environmental uncertainty, but it is at its elementary stage of research. This paper systematically explores the antecedents, processes and consequences of strategic innovation. External environment uncertainty, internal organization characteristics and top management...
The international medical tourism industry has developed rapidly in recent years, becoming one of the emerging industries in the world. Especially in Asian countries, business models and strategic alliances have been developing actively. However, besides product innovation and customer satisfaction, human information management and development are the key success factors to a new business. This paper...
China is a big developing country in the way of industrialization and so that manufacturing will be the dominate industry in a long run. In the situation of manufacturer role, comparatively inferior status of Global Value Chain, unbalanced factor endowment and fade-away of traditional comparative advantage, stressed by severer international competition and global financial crisis, it is imperative...
Much of the strategic innovation in service industries can be understood in the context of the shifting boundaries between companies and between firms and their customers. We identify three phases of innovation in modern service industries. All three enabled and triggered by advancements in information technology. The current phase of Service Innovation 3.0 is characterized by open networks between...
This study first examine the SMEs Transition of ODMs in Taiwan, highlighting the challenges executive face between Taiwan and Mainland China for better competitive strategy. Next, we introduce some of the ODM strategies using the division of innovation labor from the SEM in Taiwan and describe how they can play a role in overcoming the challenge in the global market. This study is the first to shed...
As a source of national development and progress, innovation has become the national developing strategy for most modern countries. Technology Roadmaps is a useful and flexible approach to technology management and strategic management, which will finally lead to important technology innovation. TRIZ is the worldwide theory of inventive problem solving, which can help the engineers realize technology...
The importance of entrepreneurship to the economy is reflected in its growing visibility as a topic in the popular business press as well as the increased attention it has received in the scholarly business literature. On the exciting new area of entrepreneurship research is issue of entrepreneurial orientation (EO). This issue is also especially important to strategic management since EO refers to...
This case study is to explore a new form of strategy alliance in telemedicine industry, especially where radical innovations are crucial but the implementation needs excess resource to carry out. Telemedicine industry is selected for its innovation-intensive nature. The methodology of case study is adopted for the real-field research in Beijing Tongji Hospital. Implicit from the case is important...
Enterprises clusters have been the subject of growing attention based on the role they play in the knowledge-based economy. The geographic concentrations of enterprises are thought to promote innovation through frequent interactions and information flows. Both local linkages and global pipelines offer particular, albeit different, advantages for the technology innovation and knowledge creation within...
This paper explores the NPD strategy/NPD performance and NPD strategy/integration interfaces as they are mediated by the technological newness of products. Our study investigates these research questions: (1) Does NPD strategy development proficiency relate to new product success?; (2) Is NPD strategy development proficiency related to the degree of organizational integration during such projects?;...
The concept of absorptive capacity has been part of the strategy and innovation discourse for a few decades. As industry and business practices have evolved, so has the understanding of the mechanisms responsible for developing and growing the absorptive capacity of contemporary organizations. In this paper, we trace the evolution of this concept and its operationalization and measurement. We particularly...
Along with the changes of economic structure, Taiwanese manufacturing firms are facing unfavorable problems such as increasing operating costs and the matured product life cycle. In order to gain competitiveness, many manufacturers in Taiwan are transforming into “manufacturing service industry” to satisfy customer needs. Many manufacturers are moving toward to provide high value-added services by...
Russian State Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) was established by the Federal Law in 2007. Its main activity is selection and co-investing money of the Federal budget in nanotechnology projects that have high potential for commercial or social benefit. RUSNANO investments in selected projects are expected to reach 1,5 bln. US dollars in 2009. RUSNANO uses Foresight and roadmapping techniques...
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